tharpa wrote:In PTS's Jaataka I & II, translated by Rouse, the Kacchapa-Jaataka is translated into Latin rather than English.

It's dry humor, I know, but you have to take what you can get with the Tipitika.

As the former Dhammapiti Bhikkhu once said, "The Theravada is so dry that sand comes out of your ears."

There is a lot of humor in the Pali suttas, some of it very pointed.

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++++++++++++++++This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

There is freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning. If there were not this freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning, then escape from that which is birth, becoming, making, conditioning, would not be known here. -- Ud 80

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.People live in one another’s shelter.

++++++++++++++++This being is bound to samsara, kamma is his means for going beyond. -- SN I, 38.

There is freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning. If there were not this freedom from birth, freedom from becoming, freedom from making, freedom from conditioning, then escape from that which is birth, becoming, making, conditioning, would not be known here. -- Ud 80

Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireas na daoine.People live in one another’s shelter.

tharpa wrote:In PTS's Jaataka I & II, translated by Rouse, the Kacchapa-Jaataka is translated into Latin rather than English.

It's dry humor, I know, but you have to take what you can get with the Tipitika.

As the former Dhammapiti Bhikkhu once said, "The Theravada is so dry that sand comes out of your ears."

Probably because the content was too blue to publish at the time the translations were published.

3. Kacchapa Jātaka (No. 273).– The story of how a monkey insulted a turtle by introducing his private parts into the turtle as the latter lay basking in the sun with his mouth open. The turtle caught hold of the monkey and refused to release him. The monkey went for help, and the Bodhisatta, who was an ascetic in a hermitage nearby, saw the monkey carrying the turtle. The Bodhisatta persuaded the turtle to release the monkey.

The story was related in reference to the quarrelsome ministers of the king of Kosala. J.ii.359-61.

tharpa wrote:In PTS's Jaataka I & II, translated by Rouse, the Kacchapa-Jaataka is translated into Latin rather than English.

It's dry humor, I know, but you have to take what you can get with the Tipitika.

As the former Dhammapiti Bhikkhu once said, "The Theravada is so dry that sand comes out of your ears."

Probably because the content was too blue to publish at the time the translations were published.

3. Kacchapa Jātaka (No. 273).– The story of how a monkey insulted a turtle by introducing his private parts into the turtle as the latter lay basking in the sun with his mouth open. The turtle caught hold of the monkey and refused to release him. The monkey went for help, and the Bodhisatta, who was an ascetic in a hermitage nearby, saw the monkey carrying the turtle. The Bodhisatta persuaded the turtle to release the monkey.

The story was related in reference to the quarrelsome ministers of the king of Kosala. J.ii.359-61.

Well, in the Jātakas, the stories are just commentaries, not Tipitika. Only the verses are Tipitika. Unfortunately, PTS published them together, so it is not at all clear to the reader.